The next Good Tyme Writers Buffet will take place amid the Public Pool’s first fundraiser exhibition, The Night Of One Thousand Cocks! It’s a show that celebrates the magic and the mystery of the cock. It includes drawings, photos and small sculptures mostly of roosters, but wieners too, and even a shuttlecock—all donated by artists and priced to sell at $40. February 23, the Writers Buffet considers the rooster, birds, androgyny, trans-issues, the idea of human sexuality, and masculinity in all its various forms—toxic or innocuous or just normal—thank God for the normal! Come to the Good Tyme Writers Buffet! ALSO THERE’S THIS: If you bring a dish for the potluck, you get two minutes on the floor (just two timed minutes) to read your own cocky stories. Yes! Please come! Bring food, and bring something share—a poem, a short, short, short story. Come hungry. Come thirsty. Bring food! It’s a potluck! Dreamy Lover will kick it on turntables Readers include: Laura Bernstein-Machlay Ambrose Mary Polly Rosenwaike Elijah S Sparkman Cody Walker More about the Readers: Laura Bernstein-Machlay, a long-time Detroiter, teaches literature and creative writing at The College for Creative Studies. An award-winning author of poetry and creative nonfiction, she's been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous national and international magazines and literary journals including The American Scholar, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Plains Review, Poetry Northwest, etc. She has an essay forthcoming from Hotel Amerika, and her full-length collection of creative-nonfiction essays, Travelers, was published in 2018 by Sonder Press. Ambrose Mary is a nursing student at Wayne State, and hopes to someday insert your catheter. She plays guitar in Fat Angry Hens and writes monster stories Polly Rosenwaike’s story collection, Look How Happy I’m Making You, will be published by Doubleday in March of 2019. Her stories, reviews, and essays have been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, Glimmer Train, New England Review, Colorado Review, the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Millions. A former lecturer in creative writing at Eastern Michigan University, she currently works as a freelance editor and as the fiction editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. Elijah Sparkman is a local reader of books, and, on occasion, opens up his Google Docs and punches what must be random keys. A devout connoisseur of Book Suey, Source, and the 2 John King’s, he lives over there by the Rock n Roll Liquor Store and the Outer Limits. He is elated to be here. Cody Walker directs the Creative Writing Sub-concentration at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He’s the author of two full-length poetry collections, Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser, 2008) and The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser, 2016), as well as a chapbook, The Trumpiad (Waywiser, 2017). (The chapbook doubles as an ACLU fundraiser.) A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. He’s the co-director, along with Laura Kasischke, of the Bear River Writers’ Conference, which will take place this year on and around the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. Steve Hughes hosts the Good Tyme Writers Buffet. He writes and publishes the zine Stupor. His book, STIFF (Wayne State University Press, 2018) collects many of the stories he’s read at previous Writers Buffets.
